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Eileen Way

Eileen Way
Born
Eileen Mabel Elizabeth Way

(1911-09-02)2 September 1911
New Malden, Surrey, England
Died16 June 1994(1994-06-16) (aged 82)
Canterbury, Kent, England
OccupationActress
Years active1938–93
SpouseFelix Warden Brown

Eileen Mabel Elizabeth Way (2 September 1911 – 16 June 1994)[1] was a British actress who appeared in film and television roles in a career dating back to the 1930s. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art from the age of 16.[1][2]

She was in some of the first productions of Tennessee Williams' plays in Great Britain, including playing the role of the Mexican Woman in A Streetcar Named Desire,[3] and appeared at the Bristol Old Vic and Nottingham Playhouse.[4]

She appeared in an early televised episode of Hancock's Half Hour as a puritanical former ATS member, the TV series Doctor Who, in the serials An Unearthly Child (as Old Mother, the programme's first on-screen death) and The Creature from the Pit (as Karela),[5] as well as in the 1966 film Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (as Old Woman), based on the serial The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964).[6] She also appeared in the second series of Poldark (1977) as Aunt Agatha; Century Falls;[5] Upstairs, Downstairs;[1] By the Sword Divided;[7] Inspector Morse;[1] Bergerac; and Ripping Yarns.[8]

She was married to the psychiatrist Felix Warden Brown.[9]

  1. ^ a b c d "Obituary: Eileen Way". The Independent. 2 July 1994.
  2. ^ Fabrique. "Eileen Way — RADA". www.rada.ac.uk.
  3. ^ "Production of A Streetcar Named Desire - Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
  4. ^ "Eileen Way obituary". The Doctor Who Cuttings Archive. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  5. ^ a b "BBC - Cult - Classic TV - Century Falls (1993)". www.bbc.co.uk.
  6. ^ "Eileen Way". BFI. Archived from the original on 17 June 2017.
  7. ^ "Eileen Way obituary - the Doctor Who Cuttings Archive".
  8. ^ "BBC Two - Ripping Yarns, Series 1, Across the Andes by Frog". BBC.
  9. ^ "Munks Roll Details for Felix Warden Brown". munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk.

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